A former Marana police officer who was fired
in September has requested that a personnel-board hearing be
postponed.

Calvin Ingram, a 10-year veteran with Marana
police, was scheduled to appeal his firing with the Personnel
Action Review Board last Thursday, Jan. 21. Ingram did not attend
the hearing, and his attorney requested the hearing be delayed.

"Calvin Ingram will not be here for the
hearing, he is sick," said Michael Storie, an attorney representing
Ingram. "I have to ask for a continuance so that he can be
here."

Attorneys for the town did not object to the
board rescheduling the hearing. The town had earlier asked that the
board reschedule a previous meeting.

A new PARB hearing was scheduled for March
5.

Ingram was fired in September after an
internal investigation determined that he used his access to
restricted databases to obtain personal information on numerous
people.

In a September letter informing Ingram that he
would be fired, Marana Police Chief Terry Tometich noted that an
investigation found Ingram had used his database access to conduct
at least 86 searches of people that did not correspond to his
duties as a police officer.

Marana police investigators said the searches
amounted to felony violations, including computer tampering and
unauthorized access of criminal background searches.

Since Ingram's firing, he has been named a
defendant in a criminal case. The Arizona Attorney General's office
filed a 27-count indictment against Ingram for computer tampering,
trafficking in identities and aggravated taking of people's
identities.

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